The Renaissance Nude at London’s Royal Academy sheds light on the fascinating role of the unclothed human figure in art history and how the evolution of the nude, between 1400 – 1530, sets up the bedrock of western art for centuries to come.
Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver. A rare opportunity to gaze, close up and personal, at faces from 400 years ago and glory in the delicate features and clever characterisation which those remarkable portrait artists achieved.
Portraits made from IKEA catalogues. A huge project for me and my www.paperface.co.uk venture. Live portraits made at speed and exhibited at Stephen Lawrence Gallery, within University of Greenwich, later shown within gallery space at the new IKEA store opening at Greenwich North on 7th February 2019!
An enlightened show on Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library shows that the ‘Dark Ages’ were far from gloomy but actually a time of extraordinary cultural flowering; you can see rare examples of beautiful objects which date from the departure of the Romans to the invasion of William the Conqueror, early English literature, manuscripts, art and artefacts which have survived the centuries.
The 2018 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery presents a fascinating collection of portraits from around the world with a mix of studio and street photography capturing spontaneous and carefully crafted pictures.
Two centuries of photography is celebrated with the new Photography Centre at the V&A which offers a panoramic take on the evolution of the medium from glimpses of the earliest pictures to the arrival of a dynamic new art form and the work of contemporary practitioners.
Frieze Art Fair fills Regents Park with a wealth of artistic variety and contemporary creativity while Frieze Masters brings mouthwatering examples of masterpieces from the ancient world to 20th century modernism.
Compare and contrast. The lives of Mantegna and Bellini were entwined through rivalry, friendship, creative confederacy and also as brothers-in-law. Their shared talents brought innovation to their world and inspiration to the Renaissance painters who followed them and paved the way for the development of modern art. A fabulous new show at the National Gallery in London celebrates this astonishing artistic relationship with a stunning collection of paintings many of which have never been seen in the UK before.
